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by corbet 71 days ago
I hate to blow our own horn, but I'm gonna...if you are interested in seeing this kind of kernel-development data mining, fully human-written, LWN posts it every development cycle. The 6.17 version (https://lwn.net/Articles/1038358/) included the buggiest commit and much surrounding material. See our kernel index (https://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/#Releases) for information on every kernel release since 2.6.20.

Or see LWN on Monday for the 7.0 version :)

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Thanks! LWN's development cycle reports are incredible and were actually an inspiration. The goal here wasn't to replace that kind of expert analysis but to show what becomes possible when you can just write SQL against the raw history. Your reports add the context and understanding that no database query can provide.